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Leaders in Germany have criticized decisions by Nordic countries to reimpose passport controls. Denmark cited fears of an increasing influx of refugees as a knock-on effect of Sweden’s more…

Russia is ready to serve as an intermediary to resolve the dispute between Saudi Arabia and Iran that saw the kingdom break off diplomatic relations with Tehran, a Russian Foreign Ministry source…

Denmark is enforcing what it described as temporary controls on its German border, following its Scandinavian neighbors Sweden and Norway in stepping up measures to stem the influx of migrants…

The Islamic State group has captured the Libyan town of Ben Jawad, close to the country’s vital oil ports, the militants said Monday.

IS, which has taken advantage of years of chaos…

A powerful earthquake struck South Asia before dawn on Monday, killing at least nine people and injuring nearly 200, with efforts to rescue those trapped in rubble hampered by severed power…

The new government in Buenos Aires has invited the UK to resume talks aimed at settling the Falklands sovereignty dispute “fairly and definitively”.

A suicide bomber in a car blew himself up close to a police checkpoint near Kabul airport on Monday but caused no other casualties, a police spokesman said.

The bomber was spotted by police…

A video circulated online on Sunday purported to show the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group killing five men accused of spying for Britain in Syria.

Munich’s police was given information on a possible terror attack in the city, German media has reported. The threat prompted officials to evacuate Munich’s central and Pasing train stations.

The gun battle between Indian troops and militants at an air force base in Pathankot near the Pakistani border has entered its third day.

Indian TV stations reported that a loud explosion…

Demonstrations erupted across the Middle East on Sunday as Muslims protested Saudi Arabia’s execution of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.

Explosions and gunfire have rung out at the Indian Consulate in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif. An unknown number of gunmen reportedly attempted to enter the consulate. Two explosions…

EU Commissioner Gunther Oettinger on Sunday threatened to put Poland on notice for infringing on common European values by passing legislation giving the government control of the state media.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon said he was “deeply dismayed” by Saudi Arabia’s execution of 47 people including a prominent Shiite cleric, whose death sparked violent protests in Iran, a spokesman said…

Attacks by five suicide bombers on an Iraqi military base north of Baghdad on Sunday killed at least 15 members of the security forces and wounded 22 others, security sources said.

Two of…

An agreement signed last year making the Vatican’s de facto recognition of Palestine in 2012 official has come into effect, the Holy See said on Saturday.

The Vatican signed its first…

A two-year old boy became the first refugee to drown while crossing the Aegean Sea in 2016, after a boat carrying dozens of migrants shipwrecked near the Greek coast. The Syrian boy was traveling…

The push by France’s Socialist government to revoke the citizenship of convicted terrorists with dual nationality after the Paris attacks has turned into a harsh political dispute, with the far…

A gold medal-winning shooter was among 10 people killed in an audacious pre-dawn assault on an air force base, officials said on Sunday as troops worked to clear the compound in Pathankot, Punjab…

A Saudi coalition that has been bombing the Houthi movement in Yemen for nine months announced on Saturday the end of a ceasefire that began on Dec. 15, in a setback to attempts to end the…

A newly-elected Mexican mayor has been shot dead on her second day in office.

Gisela Mota was killed at her home in the city of Temixco, 85 km south of the capital Mexico City, hours after…

The self-styled Islamic State militants continue to launch a series of counterattacks against Iraqi government forces on the edges of the western city of Ramadi days after the militant group was…

British soldiers may be put on trial for alleged crimes committed in Iraq including murder, the head of a government unit investigating claims of torture and unlawful killing said in an interview…

A new appraisal names the United States as one of the threats to Russia’s national security for the first time, a sign of how relations with the West have deteriorated in recent years.

The…

The Turkish president’s office said on Friday that Recep Tayyip Erdogan was not advocating a Hitler-style government when he called for a state system with a strong executive.